But I repeat myself. Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. The beginning is the most important part of the work. The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. Half of the people in the world are below average.
Nothing is easier than being busy - and nothing more difficult than being effective.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. So many men, so little time. As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent.