Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.