Only the insane take themselves seriously.

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

Every kind of writing is hypocritical.

By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.