If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

Outside literature, high-flown sentiments are merely exasperating.

The rich are happier than we are, and should be.

In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.

The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.

Helplessness is a mighty power.

As soon as I hear of a right, I want it.