Those whom the gods love grow young.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance