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

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

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.

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

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

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

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