Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.

As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they have to tell until we are old ourselves and they have been gone twenty or thirty years. Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

America is the only place where man is full-grown!

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Cupid "the little greatest enemy."