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.

The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.