The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.

Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows

A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.