The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.

All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, "Lie down.

Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.