The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do.
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.
Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.
The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.
Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.