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

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

A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.