Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.

If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.

Any place that we love becomes our world.

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.