That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.