The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it

Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.

What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?