To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.