He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.

Language has unmistakably made plain that memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.