Only poor men get hanged.

Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.

My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.

It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.