A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.

The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.

I don’t mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don’t want to get nibbled to death. There’s a difference.

In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.

The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.

All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.

There is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter.