Nobody ever died of laughter.
From Max Beerbohm
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
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