they're the sort of people one invites to lunch or tea, but never to dinner.

The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps the most useful thing I have learned in my lifetime is that the process of maturing gradually turns the mind away from the small-self to the greater-self that is only served by serving others.

Women will not, for many a year, perhaps never, descend again to the status of toys.

Conversation is much like a tennis game except that in tennis you try to put the ball in the most difficult position for the one who must hit it - while in conversation you must try to put it where it will be easy to hit.

The very thing that seems to impede your progress can often be turned to account for you.

Try to think of your thoughts as boomerangs - that is actually what they are - except that our thoughts multiply and each returns to us with a brood like itself.

they're the sort of people one invites to lunch or tea, but never to dinner.