A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

There is no bore like a clever bore.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.