Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of habit.

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalogue than nothing at all.

TO EAT WELL IN ENGLAND YOU SHOULD HAVE BREAKFAST THREE TIMES A DAY.

LOVE IS WHAT HAPPENS TO A MAN AND WOMAN WHO DON’T KNOW EACH OTHER.

AN UNFORTUNATE THING ABOUT THIS WORLD IS THAT THE GOOD HABITS ARE MUCH EASIER TO GIVE UP THAN THE BAD ONES.

FEW MISFORTUNES CAN BEFALL A BOY WHICH BRING WORSE CONSEQUENCES THAN TO HAVE A REALLY AFFECTIONATE MOTHER.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.