Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.

Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

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.

There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.