The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.
The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.