You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.

I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).

He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.

Good families are generally worse than any others.

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.

Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small Durance deal with that steep or deep.

O my soul, I am now addressing myself to the greatest work that ever a creature was employed about - I am going into the solemn presence of God about business of everlasting importance!

Forgiveness is not cheap even though it's free.

Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective.

I really tend to write in retrospect.

I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.