 You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. |
| A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. |
| We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money. |
| The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. |
| I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. |
| Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. |
| Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. |
| You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub. |
| Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. |
| All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it. |
| I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. |
| A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out. |
| Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. |
| Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. |
| Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. |
| Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious. |
| What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married? |
| There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it. |
| Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. |
| If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. |
