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

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence.

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.

It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.