Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off my life, he'll take from off the other end!

A grave is such a quiet place.

The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

Marriage...one of the most civilized institutions in the world...But...swimming is one of the most wonderful of sports, and yet there are always some people who cannot swim who insist on going into the water and getting drowned. Many people spoil marriage in a like manner. One should be sure she knows how to be married before rushing into it.