The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!
Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.