The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

Genius is born-not paid