The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.