An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.

I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.