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

Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.

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

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

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

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

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