It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.

Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.