The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril.