In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends...

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.

She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

We came to realize how little married couples see of each other once they crawl in the bourgeois box.

God is a giver of life.

When they think about Africa, they think about War, Poverty, Hunger and Diseases.

I should like to understand more about the signs on the shirt you wore earlier. What was it: Eat the tail and suck the head?

And of course, the answer came to me in the same way Jesus comes to those who drink in trailers: as an epiphany.

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

Time taught me how to see every second as heaven, even though they're perfectly disguised as hell.

Maybe something new is even being done by people who see our generation as an enemy. That can create energy as well.

All humour is critical, you know? You make stupid jokes. I mean, stupidity is an infirmity, isn't it?

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.