Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.