Friendship takes time.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.

The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.