It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.

When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.

Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.

you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.

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

Great men have always had dogs.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.