Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.

I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.

The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye.

Even fools are right sometimes.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.