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.

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

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

I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.