The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

A mutual misunderstanding.

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.