My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.