The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.

America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.

Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.