Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

No furniture is so charming as books.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.