After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

Nonfiction that smells like fiction is neither.

That which triggers understanding often is found by bringing misunderstanding to the light.

Steep fall to the groundshatteringlike clay pigeons missed by bad shotsand unsteady hands.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

It's more in my nature to be optimistic, I think. I'm one of those people who gets up on the right side of the bed in the morning.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

Ten out of ten people die, so don't take life too seriously.

The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward.