Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

A husband is very much like a house or a horse.

On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not suppose that these pianos are, in fact, as a rule, louder and harsher, more violent and less musical, than other instruments of the kind. They seem to be so, but that, I take it, arises from the exceptional mental depression of those who have to listen to them.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.