Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves; it is as fancy, as big, as little, as you please, just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.

An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.

Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?

The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon.

A little work, a little play, To keep us going - and so, good-day!

The wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets-a vicious circle.

Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners.

A little work a little play To keep us going - and so good-day!

Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves it is as fancy as big as little as you please just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.

i'm only an independent woman when there's nothing heavy to carry

Love, endure, persist... Everything will return to you, innocent fool!

Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them!

Were we not proud ourselves, we should not complain of the pride of others.

As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.

We teachers are rather good at magic, you know.

Flirting with death is the spice of life.

The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.

I enclose to you a copy of the declaration of independence as agreed to by the House, and also, as originally framed. You will judge whether it is the better or worse for the Critics.

Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild.