“Respect is tendered with pleasure only where it is not exacted.”
“The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.”
“Tenderness can be born only of respect for individualities. Tenderness builds its nest in little things, in the absurdities of a face, in personal crotchets. When we lose a friend, it is probably his faults that we mourn.”
“Pleasure involves respect, and respect starts with words.”
“The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading”
“A cigar is a sort of thing, not exactly a pleasure, but the crown and outward sign of pleasure.”