But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty...

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

Old age is the verdict of life.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.