A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.

To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said.

It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant repetition in the accents of the pulpit, and if we had not somehow got it into our heads that brains were rather reprehnsible, we should reckon Him among the greatest wits of all time. Nobody else, in three brief years, has achieved such an output of epigram.