Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.