Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.