A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

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

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.

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.

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.