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.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.