A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.