Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

I thought of inviting you to my other club but you know how it is. Lunching there is a useful way of reminding people that you're still alive, but the members will come up and congratulate you on the fact.

The greatest mystery of all is the human heart.

In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age that we are shadowed by the awareness of the transitoriness of life.

Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.

Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.