Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to.

And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.

Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

Breed is stronger than pasture.