A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

A huge part of recovery and life -is slowing down and accepting the unKNOWN. This is how you get to KNOW –yourself.

Surely time past is gone by like a shadow.

Leave him alone!" Debbie shouted."Shut up, please, or I'll kill you, " Mr Tiny replied.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money.

I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.

High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs them neither study nor labor.

If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.

Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?

The tongue has the power of life and death.