There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

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.

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

The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.

America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.