There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...

If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.

O God, make me good, but not yet.

We possess nothing certainly except the past

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.

Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.