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

All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.

Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death.

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.

Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry!

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

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