Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.

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

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict was worthless. It might underrate a work of high merit and lose it to the world, or it might overrate a trashy production and so open the way for its infliction upon the world. I said that the great public was the only tribunal competent to sit in judgment upon a literary effort, and therefore it must be best to lay it before that tribunal in the outset, since in the end it must stand or fall by that mighty court's decision any way.