Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational shooting up of "smartness"--a bright feather, to be blown into space the second after it is launched...Wit seems to be counted a very poor relation to Humour....Humour is never artificial.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality