The unread is always better than the unreadable.

It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

History is a lie commonly agreed upon.

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.