Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.

Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.

Nothing is more trying than nerves to people who have none.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.

Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.