The good traveler has the gift of surprise.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.