Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

I have never had much trouble simultaneously entertaining diametrically opposed propositions, and welcome the possibility that this is not because I have one mind and am out of it, but because I have lots of them, all beavering away on their own.

Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.

I like money. That is, it is my preferred means of completing pecuniary transactions. I'm not particularly keen on handing over wads of currency of the realm, but at least one knows where one is, whereas the chequebook is a snare and a delusion, containing misleading numbers of blank cheques when none of the money that the bank contains is rightfully one's own. ... I think banks owe their customers a lot by way of compensation for the aggravation they cause them.

Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.