The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober.