If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

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

The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

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.