To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
No matter how ill we may be nor how low we may have fallen we should not change identity with any other person.
There is one thing certain namely that we can have nothing certain therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted and at seeing it practised.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
A virtue to be serviceable must like gold be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
People care more about being thought to have good taste than about being thought either good clever or amiable.
All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.