As a general thing people marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age when they do not really know what their own kind is.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

Don't always use prudence for precaution, sometimes use it for progress.

Elise?" He looked at her with a pleading, puppy-dog expression in his eyes."Yes?""I love you.

Life belongs to the living and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

I put my hand on my chest. I can feel my heart beating. My heart is working. I'm pleased. I'm still alive.

I'm a big believer in anesthesia. I think it should be used for every medical procedure, indlucing routine physicals.

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

I always add a year to myself, so I'm prepared for my next birthday. So when I was 39, I was already 40.

Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion.

Every student must be a gentleman.

Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars That make ambition virtue.