To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.