People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.

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.

Talking to you is only thinking to myself - made easier.

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?

Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.

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.

Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices.