Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

I can resist everything except temptation.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.