It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.