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

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.

There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.

To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life.

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.

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