“Everybody should eavesdrop once in a while. There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.”

“My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it is on your plate.”

“Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.”

“If a man has no vices, he's in great danger of making vices out of his virtues, and there's a spectacle. We've all seen them: men who were monsters of philanthropy and women who were dragons of purity. ... No, no - nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modesly around it.”

“Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.”

“Love as education is one of the great powers of the world, but it hangs in a delicate suspension; it achieves its harmony as seldom as does love by the senses. Frustrated, it creates even greater havoc, for like all love it is a madness.”

“Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.”