Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

So lets knock a couple back and make some noise