Have common sense and stick to the point.

The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.

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

It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.