There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.

Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

"I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?" "Yes, darling, with a little help from others."

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.