Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

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.

Prayer is an act of praise and worship to God

Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.

Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.

Most men know what they hate, few what they love.

Another way to think of this is there are now 6.8 billion people on this planet, and half of them weren't even born when we went to the moon, and so they don't have the perspective.

Can a country's people be better than its planes?

Playing dress up begins at age 5 and never really ends.

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

Let work itself be the ambition.

Undertake this journey for the remission of your sins, with the assurance of the imperishable glory of the Kingdom of Heaven!