It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.

There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.

I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he even enjoyed it, it remained utterly remote. I think it had lost sense for him. In his heart was the reflection of a lovely dream that he could never quite recall.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.