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

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

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.

There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.