Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania.

... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

[On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue ... and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe.

Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.