Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in “Old Maid”; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.

There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilising or it will die.

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

Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.

It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become. Edgar Allan Poe #0754Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.