My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg - nine-tenths of him is under water.

The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.