Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.