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.

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.

If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal.

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

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman.