Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design.

The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.