You can't have genius without patience.

... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!

Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.

conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.

as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.

When one promise jostles another, one of 'em isn't a promise.

There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.