When did Youth ever thank Age for its wisdom?

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!

A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.

a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!

a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.

Fighting should be left to dogs and cats and chickens, who can't reason.

I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.