The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.