The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.

It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing.

We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.

A concept is stronger than a fact.

There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living."