How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service."

Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

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.

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

No furniture is so charming as books.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.