When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected. - Marquis De Vauvenargues
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Materialism coursens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. - Henri Frederic Amiel
I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at. - Wilson Mizner
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours. - Frank Moore Colby
There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. - Edith Wharton
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t. - Tom Waits
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of a man is to live, not to exist. - Jack London
But lo! men have become the tools of their tools. The man who independently plucked the fruits when he was hungry is become a farmer; and he who stood under a tree for shelter, a housekeeper. We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven. - Henry David Thoreau