Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.

It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.