Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

The contact of two epidermises.

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.

It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.