When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

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

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so, and by the manipulation of his plot, he can engage the reader's attention so that he does not perceive the violence that has been done to him.