Wit is a thing capable of proof.

Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?

The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

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

The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.