People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.

Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.