Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?

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

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.

Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.

Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.

Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.