Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.

There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.

There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.

The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself.

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice