"Life is too important to take seriously."

To add insult to injury.

God help those who do not help themselves.

God gave man two ears and one tongue so that we listen twice as much as we speak.

In the highest society, as well as in the lowest, woman is merely an instrument of pleasure.

... a thing called Ethics, whose nature was confusing but if you had it you were a High-Class Realtor and if you hadn't you were a shyster, a piker and a fly-by-night. These virtues awakened Confidence and enabled you to handle Bigger Propositions.

For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

Goals... Plans... they're fantasies, they're part of a dream world...

Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you've got nothing else to try. If they work, they go in the Book. Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

To err is human, to repent, divine, to persist, devilish.

According to my best recollection, I don't remember.

We all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.