In literature and in love we generally begin in bad taste

Whenever you see a book frequently advertised, you may be pretty sure it is a bad one. If you see a puff quoted in the advertisement, you may be quite sure.

No cigar-smoker ever committed suicide.

Hock cannot be too much, claret cannot be too little, iced.

He whose friendship is worth having, must hate and be hated.

Never take lobster-sauce to salmon; it is mere painting of the lily, or, I should rather say, of the rose.

The safety of women consists in one circumstance: Men do not possess at the same time the knowledge of thirty-five and the blood of seventeen.