When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.

The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.

The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]