"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."
"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account."
"Men become old, but they never become good."
"I delight in men over seventy, they always offer one the devotion of a lifetime. "
"How many men there are in modern life who would like to see their past burning to white ashes before them!"
"A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain."
"Nowadays all the married men live like bachelors and all the bachelors live like married men."
"I don’t like compliments, and I don’t see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn’t mean."