The way to do some things is to do them.

Of two evils choose the prettier.

We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.

Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.

A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.

I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.