It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room..

Endurance is frequently a form of indecision..

Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous..

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see..

Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list..

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting..

We learn nothing by being right..

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting..

To some people the impossible is impossible..

To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing..

You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa….

Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you kne….

What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten..

Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting..

Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into..

Irony is the hygiene of the mind..

Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?.

Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality..

It is harder to cut our gains than to cut our losses..

My soul has gained the freedom of the night.