“We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. ”

“People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.”

“It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.”

“A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.”

“It's not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it's not possible to find it elsewhere.”

“A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.”

“The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. ”