A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them.

Drizzle happiness wherever you go.

My feelings towards it can only be paralleled by that of a doting parent towards an idiot child.

Whoever makes you smarter a little earlier in life makes you better

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgment on the past.

I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.

You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.

The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

She laughed, and the sound was so melodic that I knew I wanted to hear it again.

"What was the name of Pygmalion's sister?" She blinked, twice, obviously surprised. "Ummm," she said, keeping her eyes on me. "I don't know." Rogerson did," I told her. "Rogerson knew everything."