We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile.

Independence? That's middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

England and America are two countries divided by a common language.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

Like fingerprints, all marriages are different.

No man is good enough to be another man's master.