Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.

Though one cannot always Remember exactly why one has been happy, There is no forgetting that one was.

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.