We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.

It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

Man must endure his going hence.

Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good.

The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.

A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.