Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh air, he will have to overcome certain physical repugnance before he can bring himself to put those principles into practice.

You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.

As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate and bedspreads, of carpets and tapestries.