Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
Does it really matter what these affectionate people do– so long as they don?t do it in the streets and frighten the horses!
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
No human thing is of serious importance.
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.