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

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

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

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

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.

Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive.

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