Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously unemployable.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.

If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.