Genius is talent provided with ideals.

A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.

The end of culture is right living

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

It is good to be on your guard against an Englishman who speaks French perfectly; he is very likely to be a card-sharper or an attache in the diplomatic service.

I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.

Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.