Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.

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.

Nature is always behind the age

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.