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.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

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.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

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

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