Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

Have common sense and stick to the point.

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.