No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.