Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.