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Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

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Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

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Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

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In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

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Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.

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No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.

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Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

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When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.

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Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy.

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Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we

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