On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests.

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.