The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.