What humbugs we are who pretend to live for Beauty and never see the Dawn!

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.

Don't judge. Teach. It's a learning process.

I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

My greatest fear is being somewhere without a book.

I was - I've always been a bit of perpetual adolescent.

I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.