Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare.

A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?

Money is a jealous mistress If you want money you must want only money. ... I must tell you the one secret of life, there is only one: everything is a jealous mistress, everything is terribly possessive, and, by God, we want to be terribly possessed if we want to get somewhere - and we want to be terribly possessed - anyhow; or what is life?

Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.

Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.

It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.

A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.