The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

It is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's face.

... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season.

What passes for an original opinion is, generally, merely an original phrase. Old lamps for new - yes; but it is always the same oil in the lamp.

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.