We women adore failures. They lean on us.

"Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information." "I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand." "Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that?" "I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person."

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel