If there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy.

Revolution is obstructed evolution.

it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs.

All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.

Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?

Pedestals are always lonely.

Love and hate always remember; it is only indifference that forgets.