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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.