The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

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

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.