The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty
Those whom the gods love grow young.
There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.