Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.

What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.

We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.