The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen.

I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.

My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.