Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity...
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
If history repeats itself and the unexpected always happens how incapable...
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man...
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at...
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without...
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by...
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken...
Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their...
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to...
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
If all the economists were laid end to end they'd never reach a conclusion.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our...
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet you'd best teach it to...
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory beauty truth knowledge...
Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has...
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul.
She had lost the art of conversation but not unfortunately the power of...
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly science into superstition and...
Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window...
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
