The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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

Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.