A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.

Gather kittens while you may, Time brings only sorrow; And the kittens of today; Will be old cats tomorrow.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.

Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.