Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.