Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions.

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.

A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.

Fashion which elevates the bad to the level of the good subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

Please take note that any and all dragon petting will be at your own peril. We are not liable for any injuries sustained while petting.

Speaking from the heart is simple. Listening wholeheartedly, however, is much, much more difficult and most rare.

Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down.

A hysterical human? Who hadn't seen that before?

Oh, how I like those little mortifications that are seen by nobody, such as rising a quarter of an hour sooner, rising for a little while in the night to pray!

Reality must prove itself again and again to questioners ... it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to prove itself.

Tis better never to be named than to be ill spoken of.

The thing about leaving something behind for the last time is that you rarely realize you're doing it.