The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.