Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

Bad manners make a journalist.

Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.