Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly.

Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.