Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.