It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
All great ideas are dangerous.
In married life three is company and two none.
Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.