The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

In married life three is company and two none.

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.