We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'

No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.