Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

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 stood there, battered by the raw power and sheer magnificence of a land I'd never known

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

Well, clearly not. Goodness boss, just look at those filthy paws. I’ve never seen any fish carry paws like those. Usually they are cleaner.

You are quite the beauty. If no one has ever told you that before, know that right now. You are quite the beauty.

I'm only stopped by people in uniform, whether it's customs people, janitors, or the FBI - they all watch The Wire. Sadly, beautiful, glamorous women don't know anything about it.

I know what's within me even if you can't see it yet...I have something more important than courage, I have patience. I will become what I know I am.

A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You.. the people must give it this soul.

Stand up for your principles, but be a decent human being while you're doing it.

Some people you don't have to satirize, you just quote 'em.