Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

...it is our good fortune that the exigencies of birth and training furnish all of us with the opportunities for snobbery.

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.