"There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there a..." — Robert Staughton Lynd

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.