 Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life! |
| Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. |
| Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl. |
| Memoirs are the backstairs of history. |
| The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong. |
| A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are. |
| The well of true wit is truth itself. |
| The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination. |
| Cynicism is intellectual dandyism. |
| Speech is the small change of silence. |
| Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose. |
| There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by. |
| I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. |
| A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power. |
| Caricature is rough truth. |
| The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere. |
| Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. |
| Kissing don't last: cookery do! |
| She poured a little social sewage into his ears. |
| Don't just count your years, make your years count. |
