A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.