Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer,' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offences against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record.

Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.

Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.