Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

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.

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

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.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.