May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.

When something needs to be said, you look for a man to say it. But when something needs actually to be done, you look for a woman.

The living always get over the dead. That’s what the dead never realize. If ever the dead did come back, they’d only have been sore that somehow you managed to get over their dying at all.

When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar.

A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another man reads? Why, sir, books would become like quacks' potions, with every mountebank in the newspapers claiming one volume's superiority over another.

Philosophy begins when you don't know where to look for an answer.

The bone won't come to the dog. It's the dog that goes to the bone.