It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know is unworthy of love.

Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.

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.