Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

Speech is civilization itself.

We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.