It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Friendship takes time.

Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.

But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.

the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.