 Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring. |
| Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. |
| Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. |
| It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. |
| Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing. |
| All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. |
| The grace of God is courtesy. |
| Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. |
| From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. |
| We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. |
| Money gives me pleasure all the time. |
| Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else. |
| The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all. |
| I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. |
| An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight. |
| When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly. |
| Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language. |
| When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. |
| Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires. |
| The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. |
