Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projecte….

The things that we have and that we think are so solid - they're like smoke, and time is like the sky that the smoke disappears into, nothing is lef….

This is a boy's lot: anything he does, anything whatever, may afterward turn out to have been a crime - he never knows. And punishment and clemency a….

There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!.

My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care ….

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered,….

It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality..

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously..

No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy, and the ra….

Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it's shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn't he? When a son cuts som….

Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field..

The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires..

Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time..

Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth..

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions..

Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if Sir Isaac Newton had been hit on ….

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for….

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them..

I'm not sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said. "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization -- that is, in spiritu….

Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either..