How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

Truth is independent of facts always.

Credit is a young man's capital.

To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.

To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

All great ideas are dangerous.