A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.