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.

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

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.