I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Remote and ineffectual don.
Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.
Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfuls.
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.
It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.