A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

Economy was always 'elegant', and money-spending always 'vulgar and ostentatious'; a sort of sour-grapeism, which made us very peaceful and satisfied.

I'll not listen to reason:Reason always means what someone else has got to say.

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is alway…

It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say.

The kindly individual believes that all people are kindly and act accordingly. The plague individual believes that all people lie, swindle, steal and crave pow…

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.