And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.