An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.
Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.
I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.
The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.