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]

I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.

A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell you what mutton tastes like. It is enough if he eats a cutlet. But he should do that.

I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense.

He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love; he had had enough of it; he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that.