Wine is bottled poetry.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet preserved this lovely character; and among our carpet interests and twopenny concerns, the shame were indelible if we should lose it. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.

I believe in an ultimate decency of things.