The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.

How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.

A poem is no place for an idea.