An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.

It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere.

Comparison is the death of joy.

The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.