Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

Man is many things, but he is not rational.