I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.

If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.