Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

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