Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing.
I don't break up, I trade up
Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings.
In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.