Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.