A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.

the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.

A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.

Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.

If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort of gramophone and meringues for supper.

it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

it is better to take experience, to suffer, to love, and to remember than to walk unscathed between the fires. I've had most immunities myself - the result of an independent income combined with a personality completely devoid of sexual attractions - the two fires of poverty and passion have therefore never burned me, and I am a lesser person for my safety.