There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

We are easily duped by those we love.

No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.

I live on good soup, not on fine words.

I have the knack of easing scruples.

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.