At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

If only the good were a little less heavy-footed

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

Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.

The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.

For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.