“The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.”

“In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.”

“A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.”

“The Canadian spirit is cautious observant and critical where the American is assertive.”

“Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.”

“Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.”

“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”