Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.

Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.

You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.