Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

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

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.