Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.

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.

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.

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.

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.