Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.

To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.

Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.

The smoke of glory is not worth the smoke of a pipe.

No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?