In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing of one friend or one acquaintance has a profounder effect that that of 100,000 strangers. If there is any metaphorical truth in the Jewish proverb that he who saves one life saves the whole world, then there is equal metaphorical truth in the proposition that when one person dies, the whole world dies with them.

Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms. You blush in each other's presence, you both hover in places where you expect the other to pass, you are both a little tongue-tied, you both laugh inexplicably and too long, you become quite nauseatingly girlish, and he becomes quite ridiculously gallant. You have also grown a little stupid.

Money has no religion except itself.

How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world

The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it

Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.

God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.