Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.

There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.

The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.