It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

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.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

Theres so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.

Beauty is all about form; proportions and the relationships between one line and another.

I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me

Be careful of someone who starts asking a lot of questions about you. Start asking a lot of questions about them. Turn it around.

As someone who tried to be great. I don't know if one ever gets to greatness, but I've put in a good effort, and will continue to do so.

Think of something that you can do as opposed to all the things you can't do - and do that.

If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossible for the dog to catch the rabbit.

A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha.

It is not enough to simply "do your best". You must strive for perfection.