Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule.

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth.

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.