Life is too short to be in a hurry.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Life is too short to be in a hurry.

...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

"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."