Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.
There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.
Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.
The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.