Sometimes the road was only a lane, with thick hawthorne hedges, and the green elms overhung it on either side so that when you looked up there was only a strip of blue sky between. And as you rode along in the warm, keen air you had a sensation that the world was standing still and life would last forever. Although you were pedaling with such energy you had a delicious feeling of laziness.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Sherry, the civilized drink.

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

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