The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married.

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry.

I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.

Sun, silence, and happiness.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.