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