What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

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

I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth