Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.

A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.

Malice often takes the garb of truth.