In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.

As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.

It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.

The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.