When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.

pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.

... if one can remember without loving, then couldn't one love without remembering?

Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.