Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

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

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.