Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

All romances end at marriage.

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.

We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.

Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.

Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies