The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.

Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.

When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill.

Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.

Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they spend all their efforts to hide. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs.

I have a friend, physically magnificent, who combines within himself the intellect of a philosopher, the diplomacy of a statesman, the executive ability of the general of an army, the courtesy of a Chesterfield - and the emotions of a rabbit.