Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

Economics and ethics have little in common.