Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.
The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.
A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.