"A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on."

"Why is his last new novel sleep itself? Because it's so poor. — sopor."

"I am a man of the world, and have seen much of its evil. I have also seen something of its good. But I have never seen anything so good as a good wife."

"I have no belief in the perfectibility of human nature."

"I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it."