As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

Punctuality is the thief of time