The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.