Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. |
Only my own genius. |
Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there. |
Only the shallow know themselves. |
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. |
Other people are quite dreadful./ The only possible society is oneself. |
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. |
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life |
Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his health permit him, will inform you of the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself. |
Passion makes one think in a circle. |
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. |
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity. |
People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards. |
People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. |
People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately |