I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.
I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.
We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment.
Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house-out of place and in the way.
All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.
If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.
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