No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.

Disobedience is man's original virtue.

Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!