Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.

The end of culture is right living

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

People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.

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]

It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.