If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

Love is easily killed.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.