There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made if he had only ridden more in buses.

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.

Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.