The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.
Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food.
Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water.
The perjurer's mother told white lies.
The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages, blinking and passionate, in the sun.
If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.
Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.
Better a bald head than none at all.
A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.
Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.
Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it.
Life is a charity ball given by the leaders of society. A few dance, get their charity's worth to the last penny; and the poor stand outside the gate and watch with hungry eyes the glint of jewels in the warm air. Then comes the lackey Death, and he says: "Madam and my Master, your carriage waits." So they go away into the dark in the carriage of the black plumes, and the dancing continues.
Art knows, life applies knowledge; art feels, life acts.
Most mysteries are soluble in time.
If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger.
We are plated with piety, not alloyed with it.
The half-baked sermon causes spiritual indigestion
There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction.
That art is best which suggests most.
Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.
Justice and the facade of a temple are seen best from the outside.
That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.
If all fools wore white hoods, any crowd would look like a field of blooming buckwheat.
Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner.
Childhood has no necessary connection with age.
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