I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

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

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.

He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.