There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
Necessity... the mother of invention.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.
"Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching that cannot lie."
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
“It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order.”
I don't think women outlive men, Doctor. It only seems longer.
“Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy’s will to be imposed on him.”
The priest was good but dull. The officers were not good but dull. the king was good but dull. The wine was bad but not dull.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
Every love's the love before in a duller dress.
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag & exaggeration.
Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.
If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle