What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.

People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.