The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

If you want to know how old a woman is . . . ask her sister-in-law.

I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.

I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.

A poem is no place for an idea.

A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.