Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
There are two words for everything.
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.
The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.