Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.