If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

Time is a waste of money.