idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.

Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.

irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.

There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.