Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light.

Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you."

To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment--are all the blackest of black lies.

Never say "Au revoir" unless you have been talking French, or are speaking to a French person.

"Keep your hands to yourself!" might almost be put at the head of the first chapter of every book on etiquette.

There is no reason why you should be bored when you can be otherwise. But if you find yourself sitting in the hedgerow with nothing but weeds, there is no reason for shutting your eyes and seeing nothing, instead of finding what beauty you may in the weeds. To put it cynically, life is too short to waste it in drawing blanks. Therefore, it is up to you to find as many pictures to put on your blank pages as possible.

The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor.