If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers - is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.