A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the death of politeness between a man and a woman.

It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.