Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington

For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not the very interesting ones; even women, with whom the subject is of paramount interest, have a contempt for them.

Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers

I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.