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.

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

I am happy in my prison of passion

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it