The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.