To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.