Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.

Nothing great ever came out of common sense.

It is the utterly destructive quality. When you say vanity, you are thinking of the kind that admires itself in mirrors and buys things to deck itself out in. But that is merely personal conceit. Real vanity is something quite different. A matter not of person but of personality. Vanity says, "I must have this because I am me." It is a frightening thing because it is incurable.

It is not possible to love and be wise.

Weak people can be very stubborn.

It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.