She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.

I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain

The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.

Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.