Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things.

It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.

The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'