To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.