Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
A mask tells us more than a face.
There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.
It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.
I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.