Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.

There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.

The moment of cocoa-drinking was always the moment of confidences.

Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger.

We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.

a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.