Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament.

Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly reunions...

There isn’t any virtue where there has never been any temptation.

Fighting should be left to dogs and cats and chickens, who can’t reason.

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader’s frame of mind.

I have no faith in a human critter who hasn’t one or two bad habits.

There’s one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, – no doubt we are, – but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.

Hearts don’t come when Reason whistles to ’em.

You can’t have genius without patience.

When two duties jostle each other, one of ’em isn’t a duty.