Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.

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

A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.

a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.

Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.