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.