Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.