We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.