Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?

Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

My beloved friend - one of the most unique and charming personalities of our time.

If there's no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know," he went on [...]; "I seem to see some meaning in them, after all.

I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford.