There Is No Greater Stupidity Or Meanness

Eloquence Is A Republican Art, As Conversation Is An Aristocratic One.

The Fact Of Having Been Born Is A Bad Augury For Immortality.

Half Our Standards Come From Our First Masters, And The Other Half From Our First Loves.

Rejection Is A Form Of Self-assertion. You Have Only To Look Back Upon Yourself As A Person Who Hates This Or That To Discover What It Is That You Secretly Love.

Mortality Has Its Compensations; One Is That All Evils Are Transitory, Another That Better Times May Come.