My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

Never buy anything simply because it is expensive.