Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.

We are American at puberty. We die French.

These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.