“I mention her name and the old pain returns. Forget her, you say? How can you forget a living human being?”

“A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.”

“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for therich, a tradegy for the poor.”

“Nothing begets friendship so readily as trouble.”

“No matter how bad things get, you've got to go on living, even if it kills you.”

“You see how it is, my dear friends. There's no pleasing everyone. It's hopeless to even try, and the more you play the peacemaker, the less peaceful things become.”

“There is nothing in the world, I tell you, so maddening as a person who doesn't answer when you abuse him. You shout and you scold, you are ready to burst a gut, and he stands there and smiles....”