Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.

audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.