Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!