Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.

It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time.

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses

Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.

Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.