Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.