Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Preaching the Gospel in a brutal way is like telling your wife that you love her while she gets a punch right in her face.

Gentlemen do not carry a cane or a hat? No gloves?”“Gentleman may still wear them, but I’m afraid the problem is that there aren’t many left.

You have to trust the people who work with you and hire, but also listen to as many smart people as you can.

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

As someone has said, we either crucify or crown the Lord Jesus by our lives.

Some sarcasm is best told simply. Some humor is best told big and some is best told small.

I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.

Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.

Many assume my business success has brought me happiness. But the way I see it, I am successful because I am happy.