Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and a thousand other things well.

"All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, "Lie down.""

"It isn't life that matters, it's the courage you bring to it."