My soul has gained the freedom of the night.
To some people the impossible is impossible.
Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?
Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?
Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.
Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
Free love is sometimes love but never freedom.
Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?
What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.
The Ten Commandments don’t tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.
Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can’t get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn’t grow up into.
Perfect moments don’t turn into half-hours.
He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.
It is harder to cut our gains than our losses.
We learn nothing by being right.
It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.
Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.
We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.
Reticences are as revealing as avowals.