No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

All art is quite useless.

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.