Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?

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