The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

One said of suicide, ''As long as one has brains one should not blow them out.'' And another answered, ''But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.''