There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted. It is so in every art and study; it is so above all in the continent art of living well.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up again, and here I were.

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

The world has no room for cowards.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.