There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.

When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because they are reasonable.

To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny...though...I do not too much mind being somewhat like a cat.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.