Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.

Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.