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

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

Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.

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.

A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.

love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination.