Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.