When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.