What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.