Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.
That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them
Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it....
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers.
Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
This is the true joy in life the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap.
Martyrdom - the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
fights you on patriotic principles he robs you on business principles he enslaves you on imperial principles.
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
No, really: I can't fight, I never could. I can't bring myself to dislike anyone enough.
Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the...
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery.
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.