A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.

a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!

faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.

Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.

The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.