The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.