Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

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

Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.