To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.

A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.