In the modern conflict between the Smile and the Laugh, I am all in favor of laughing. The recent stage of culture and criticism might very well be summed up as the men who smile criticizing the men who laugh.

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.

She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.