Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

The cliche is dead poetry.

Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.