Old age and youth cannot live together.

To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

It's easy to make money. You put up the sign Bank and someone walks in and hands you his money. The façade is everything.

It was easy to see how upsetting it would be if women began to love freely where love came to them. An abyss would open in the principal shopping street of every town.

Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.

Women have been brought up much like slaves, that is, to lie.