There is no bore like a clever bore.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Life is one long process of getting tired.