The happy people are those who are producing something.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

surprise it's better than promises

Doubt unmasks the lie and illuminates the dark path to truth.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

I’ve come to the end of another book alive. At times like this I’m always at a loss for words.

I'm always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened.

Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.

Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.

Don't waste your time on life.

I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.