In married life three is company and two none.

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.

To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.