I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.
It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.