It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

A mutual misunderstanding.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.