Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

Nothing is sadder than the consequences of having worldly standards without worldly means.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

Tell the story of your life with grace and candor. Sharing your wisdom helps others and delivers deep satisfaction.

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.

I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.

It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.

Please, touch me, I pray.

Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum.

Well, pull up an ice block and lend an ear. Now you know how Santa uses these flying reindeer to pull his sleigh.