Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.

What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.

No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.