We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school

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

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom

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

What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son

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

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now