His smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth.

Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy.

The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.

History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.

There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.

The earth itself is slightly resistant to routine.

All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree.