A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.