The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

Like fingerprints, all marriages are different.

Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.