How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

There is nothing that art cannot express.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.