Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain.

One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.

There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!

Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.

No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy, and the rare, sudden gentlenesses of arrogant people have infinitely more effect than the continual gentleness of gentle people. Arrogance turned gentle melts the heart.

The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.

The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.