“Nothing begets friendship so readily as trouble.”

“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.”

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

“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....”

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

“This is an ugly and mean world, and only to spite it we mustn't weep. If you want to know, this is the constant source of my good spirit, of my humor. Not to cry, out of spite, only to laugh out of spite, only to laugh.”