Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her.

It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

Comparison is the death of joy.

Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.