“The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.”

“Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.”

“Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it’s a mistake to make a habit of it.”

“There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?”

“You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.”

“Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.”

“I have noticed that when someone asks for you on the telephone and, finding you out, leaves a message begging you to call him up the moment you come in, as it's important, the matter is often more important to him than to you.”