The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Is there life before death?
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.