I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone

Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.

A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.

When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only - What a crib from Rochefoucauld!

We do not want to think. We do not want to hear. We do not care about anything. Only give us a good dinner and plenty of money, and let us outshine our neighbors. There is the Nineteenth Century Gospel.

Great men always have dogs.