Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.

You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.