Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Anda bertemu orang yang melupakan Anda. Anda melupakan orang yang Anda temui. Tetapi terkadang Anda bertemu orang-orang yang tidak dapat Anda lupakan. Itu adalah teman-temanmu.
It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.