I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.