It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

Love so seldom means happiness.

Of all the band of personal traitors the sense of humor is the most dangerous.

Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.

the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.