The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

Friends are like money, easier made than kept.

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?