The ancestor of every action is a thought.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

“As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.” 

“I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.” 

“I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.” 

“She is a peacock in everything but beauty!” 

“Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.” 

“Most people are boring and stupid.” 

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.

“A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.” 

People with opinions just go around bothering each other.

Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.

“I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.”