To make our morality centre on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

A little amateur painting in water-colour shows the innocent and quiet mind.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift betwen the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing and avoids your eye.

Sing a song of seasons! Something bright in all! Flowers in the Summer, Fires in the Fall.