Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.