It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.

A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.

I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.

Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!