A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life.

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.