Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

I don't smile. Why tempt her to friendship?

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.

I spent my life trying to cure myself of my education.

This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.

America and China need to understand each other.

The weaker we feel, the harder we lean on God. And the harder we lean the stronger we grow.

The stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking didn't make her skinny, it made her cry.

Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.

Ordering is very important with essays, even if a reader doesn't read the essays or the poems in order through the book...

Every expression of true beauty can be acknowledged as a path leading to an encounter with the Lord Jesus.