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 mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.