Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

The innocence of virgins is like milk which turns when exposed to a clap of thunder, to a tart smell, to a hot day, to the merest nothing.