Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.

As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at all.

The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.