I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

Hearts Live By Being Wounded

They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.