Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.

Some American delusions: 1) That there is no class-consciousness in the country. 2) That American coffee is good. 3) That Americans are business-like. 4) That Americans are highly-sexed and that redheads are more highly sexed than others.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

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

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man, nothing but instant flight could save him.

The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail.