Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

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

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.