Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.

We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.

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