You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
