“Good intentions are useless in the absence of common-sense.”

“That seems to us to be the common sense of the matter; and common sense often makes good law.”

“Absence - that common cure of love.”

“Absence, that common cure of love.”

“There's nothing useless to a man of sense.”

“Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.”

“You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.”

“If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.”

“There are two things in the world that can never get on together—religion and common sense. Religion deals with the next life, common sense with this; religion points to the sky, common sense to the earth; religion is all imagination, common sense all reason; religion deals with what nobody can understand, common sense with what everybody can understand; religion gives us no return for our investments but flash notes on the bank of expectation, common sense gives us good interest and full security for our capital. They are as opposite as two things can possibly be, and they are always at strife. Religion is always trying to fill the world with delusions, and common sense is always trying to drive them away. Religion says Live for the next world, and common sense says Live for this.”

“Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.”