I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.

The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to the Lord, who distinguishes our cause and delivers us from the unjust and deceitful man.

I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable contribution to literature through its wit, style or wisdom; another kind is that whose main importance lies in the provision of a background to their author's life. Especially in the correspondence of great writers and poets, these two factors are very often combined.

Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.