Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.

I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion.

There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.

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

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.

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