I flutter all ways, and fly in none.

How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy's flute-like voice has its own spring charm; but the man should yield a richer, deeper music.

When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.

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.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Time, like money, is measured by our needs.

One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.