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

Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.

Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do that's got some dignity to it! Risk your souls! Risk them in good causes; then if you lose them, why should you care? Reform!

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.