the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!

the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light.

You can't have genius without patience.

Nature is perfectly impartial. Brain has no sex!