Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

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.

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