The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.