One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.

People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.