Celebration is a confrontation involving the giving of attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.

Celebration is self-restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.

Celebration is not to be endulged in overly hastily — don't whistle until you're out of the woods.

Celebration is unwise before a thing has ended — Do not praise the day before the nightfall.

Conversation is best with lulls — Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

The Conversation is that which makes for friends rather than vice versa.

Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know is brought into play, and as the reproduction, in finer form, of all our havings.

Conversation is feminine, circular and radiant of the underlying unity.

Courtesy is the oil that makes a juggernaut noiseless.

Courtesy is the court clothes of any two-legged predatory animal.

Courtesy is the inseparable companion of virtue

Courtesy is effective — it opens all doors.

The Farewell is the first step towards reunion.

The Farewell is a bitter word to say.

The Farewell is the most intimate form of human togetherness.