It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish; but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief — a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.