When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

The officers saluted as she passed and gravely bowed. They walked back across the courtyard and got into their chairs. She saw Waddington light a cigarette. A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.

You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity. You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they? When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably. Men seek but one thing in life -- their pleasure.

No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.

It does the heart good to look at you.