No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.

There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell you what mutton tastes like. It is enough if he eats a cutlet. But he should do that.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.

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

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.