I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

The heart was made to be broken.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.