It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.