Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.