Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects."

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.