How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.