Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

We women adore failures. They lean on us.

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

True friends stab you in the front.