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

Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?

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.

The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.