Genius is talent provided with ideals.

The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

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

It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.