• What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

• The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul but it has to come to heel.

• There are two things to aim at in life first, to get what you want and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

• To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober.

• A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

• It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.

• The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

• I cannot forgive my friends for dying I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

• We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

• To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know

• A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

• Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

• Don't tell your friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

• An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

• Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads.

• If you are losing your leisure, look out You are losing your soul.

• There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

• There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

• The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

• The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

• What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say

• Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

• It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

• How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true

• When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

• People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

• All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

• Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.