we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination

Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.