The old say, "I remember when." The young say, "What's the news?"

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords or pens, gold or fame, the game's the thing.

Every person has some splendid traits and if we confine our contacts so as to bring those traits into action, there is no need of ever being bored or irritated or indignant.

Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies.

To take the world as one finds it

Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason