Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome.