The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.