If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

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.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.