A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.

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.

Prey cannot bribe its way out of a predator’s hand.

Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.

Economic and financial conversion is actually attainable, thanks to this principle of truth and honesty.

Wow, " she said. "It's like you're teaching me something and being all wise.""You are not easy to get along with, " Skulduggery said.

The greater our dread of crosses, the more necessary they are for us.

[ René Lévesque] didn't understand why things do collapse. It's usually a very banal reason why things do collapse. It's not a grand reason, why they collapse economically, at least in the West.

Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.

Eventually, after a couple of years, Stripe strated to become an overnight success.

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?

It will create an excitement that will sweep the country like wildflowers