I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.

Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.