Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.