Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.