Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.

Canadian girls are so pretty it's a relief now and then to see a plain one.

I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.