The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.

Is the brain, which is notably double in structure, a double organ, 'seeming parted, but yet a union in partition'?

What exactly does a friend do?

Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.

Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which he feels the 'ego of the other player crumbling.'

Near a war is always not very near.

Pray for the strength to walk the high road, which at times may be lonely but which will lead to peace and happiness and joy supernal.

If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.

I want every family in America to have a carpet on the floor and a picture on the wall. After bread, you've got to have a picture on the wall.

Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.

I tend to opt for relaxed family holidays when I can.

All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.