The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.

I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?

Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.

A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.

Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.