As a rule, it was the pleasure-haters who became unjust.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.