The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast

We are often told that the poor are grateful for charity. Some of them are, no doubt but the best amongst the poor are never grateful. They are ungrateful, discontented, disobedient, and rebellious. They are quite right to be so

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple

I live in fear of not being misunderstood

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it

All women become like their mothers; that is their tragedy. No man does; that is his

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.