No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.

I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.