There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.

The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.

The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.