Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

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

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.

She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.