My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

All human rules are more or less idiotic.

The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again.

Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.