The great trues are too important to be new.

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

A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls.

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule.