I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.

And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.

A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

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 action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.