Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.