It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.

In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.

The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the isolation of all other forms of composition; for most good talkers, when they have run down, are miserable; they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to dispense it in noises upon the air.

Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.

When in doubt, choose greatness.