Nowadays all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.