Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, "No." To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.