Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.

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.

I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

There are two words for everything.