It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so thoroughly is everything debated before the authorized and responsible debaters get on their legs.

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

The realm of death seems an enemy's country to most men, on whose shores they are loathly driven by stress of weather; to the wise man it is the desired port where he moors his bark gladly, as in some quiet haven of the Fortunate Isles; it is the golden west into which his sun sinks, and, sinking, casts back a glory upon the leaden cloud-tack which had darkly besieged his day.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.