There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.