Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.

We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment.

Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself.

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

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.