Nothing is wasted.

The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

Every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room.

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.

Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.

I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely

What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete; one sees little but legs.

Every saint has a bee in his halo.

The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.