Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

Thanks are the highest form of thought.

The word good has many meanings.

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I will tell you. It is because they know that the train is going right. It is because they know that whatever place they have taken a ticket for that place they will reach. It is because after they have passed Sloane Square they know that the next station must be Victoria, and nothing but Victoria. Oh, their wild rapture! oh, their eyes like stars and their souls again in Eden, if the next station were unaccountably Baker Street!

To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.