Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

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.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.