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

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.

Sherry, the civilized drink.

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.