Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

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.

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

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.

In truth, there are no good people. There are only the decisions we make and the circumstances we live in.

Sometimes we live as if we are blindfolded.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re with.

A person doesn't know true hurt and suffering until they've felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere.

Instead of regarding birds as deriving from dinosaurs, Scansoriopteryx reinstates the validity of regarding them as a separate class uniquely avian and non-dinosaurian.

The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop.

We are not made for ourselves alone, we are made for the good of all our fellow creatures.

A personal essay often includes some or a lot of personal confession. That makes the reader feel less lonely in their confusion and darkness.

With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down

Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.