There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who think they do all the work. The latter class is generally the busiest, the former never have time to be busy.

Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.

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

The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.

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.

The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than a daily round of committees you might as well be dead.

Music is the ethereal connection between this world and the other.