The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

There's no sin but stupidity.

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.

The best revenge is to live well.

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.