Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

Let man be true and every god a liar.

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

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

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime