Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.

The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.