Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.

When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate

Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.