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

No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it.

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.