What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

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

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

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

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

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