I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.

if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her - well, it's much better to pretend you're the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with death in hand, and death's own hand is warmer than my own. I don't wish to live any longer.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.