“You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.”

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.

Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.

In the immediate postwar era, financial crises in advanced countries were rare events, and before 1970 did not happen at all.

You will follow every mountain, sea and shore, You will see from far and near a world you’ve never seen before.

Why it banged, or what happened before it banged.

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,

I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I’ve never done before.

How many more tragedies does it take before we do something?