People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.

The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.

Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.

A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.