The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.

How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.