The Joy Of A Strong

Dissimulation Is The Only Thing That Makes Society Possible; Without Its Amenities The World Would Be A Bear-garden.

The Loss Of Our Illusions Is The Only Loss From Which We Never Recover.

To Vice, Innocence Must Always Seem Only A Superior Kind Of Chicanery.

Excess Always Carries Its Own Retribution.

A Man May Be A Great Statesman, And Yet Dislike His Wife, And Like Somebody Else's. A Man May Be A Great Hero, And Yet He May Have An Unseemly Passion, Or An Unpaid Tailor. But The British Public Does Not Understand This. ... It Thinks, Unhappily Or Happily As You May Choose To Consider, That Genius Should Keep The Whole Ten Commandments. Now, Genius Is Conspicuous For Breaking Them.