Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must content itself with moving, exciting and amusing the reader. ...I do not think that there is any (short story) that will give the reader that thrill, that rapture, that fruitful energy which great art can produce.

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.

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