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

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

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

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