There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer.

Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

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.

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.