Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.

Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.

... to lovers innumerable things do not matter.

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.