If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.