Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.