Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially.

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against which to contrast them. Of late I have done some systematic reading of ladies papers. The plain girl submits to a course of "treatment." In eighteen months she bursts upon Society an acknowledged beauty.