To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.

It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.