There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

To be popular I must be mediocre.

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.