If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it.

Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.

A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.

Belief has nothing to do with facts, especially for the unbelievable facts.

Time should be reproduced and multiplied

Max is short for General Maximus Decimus Meridius.

The woman lived inside him, was his mate.

If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.

Joy is the reflex of terror.

I wear anything I feel like. If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them, I will.