If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

A married man with a family will do anything for money.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.

It is not an event; it is a piece of news.