Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

I know what it's like not to have friends. People need friends. Life's not much fun without them.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Most American men are repressors.

I think myself that, rather like books, music is meant to enter into the brain, well via your ears rather than your eyes but, it's - I think a lot more should be left to the imagination.

A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

Monogamy is monotonous, but it's safe you know. And that's my philosophy. And I like to convey that to people.

I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.