Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.

Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.