The game of discontent has its rules, and he who disregards them cheats. It is not permitted to you to wish to add another’s advantages or possessions to your own; you are permitted only to wish to be another.
To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.
Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.
An army’s bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.
A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can’t let go.
Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.
What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.
BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion.
Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.
The poor man’s price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.
The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.
In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.
If every hypocrite in the United States were to break his leg to-day the country could be successfully invaded to-morrow by the warlike hypocrites of Canada.
Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being.
Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it.
Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere “survivals” – as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.
To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.
New York is too strenuous for me; it gets on my nerves.