A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.

It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied, he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.

The manner in which one single ray of light, one single precious hint, will clarify and energize the whole mental life of him who receives it, is among the most wonderful and heavenly of intellectual phenomena.