Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.