Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.

When you win, nothing hurts.

The loves and hours of the life of a man, They are swift and sad, being born of the sea.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

Sometimes kids just act impulsively, but it's because we have strong feelings, not because we're trying to make trouble.

Survival has its own etiquette.

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

If today were your last, would you do what you're doing? Or would you love more, give more, forgive more?

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.