Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.

I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.