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.

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

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.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds; They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads; They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!

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.