Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

Truth is independent of facts always.

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

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