I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.

Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.

People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.