As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.

Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament

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

as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.

... some of the things floating about in the Well of Memory are not worth recording.

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!

Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.