Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

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

If it's to be, it's up to me.

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.