People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.

When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.