How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.