Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.

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

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.