Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule.

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it.