I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.

No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised

Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.

Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.

The Old Man ain’t afraid of hell

Women deserve to have more than 12 years between 28 and 40.