The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner.
Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.
Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.
Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.
[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table.