There are no ugly cigars, only ugly smokers.

I well recall my horror when I heard for the first time, of a journalist who had laid in a pair of what were then called bicycle pants and taken to golf; it was as if I had encountered a studhorse with his hair done up in frizzes, and pink bowknots peeking out of them. It seemed, in some vague way, ignominious, and even a bit indelicate.

There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.

The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose - for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.