Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair