Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex?

Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.

A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.