I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
The secret of happiness is curiosity
No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.