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.

Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

Some people always know the price, but not the value

There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.