Why is youth so short and age so long?
If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.
There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.
There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.
I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.
A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.