In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they will have at the sight of each other will be one of complete disappointment at life as a whole; because their thoughts will be carried back to that earlier time when life seemed so fair as it lay spread out before them in the rosy light of dawn, promised so much — and then performed so little.

Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.