It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.