The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.
Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.
After thirty-five a man begins to have thoughts about women; before that he has feelings.
Boards of public charity were invented by the devil to prevent real individual charity.
The most dangerous savages live in cities.
Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.
There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
Wisdom grows in quiet places.
Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.
The most evident quality of human life is its loneliness.
A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.
Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in the same place.
Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.
Truth and eggs are useful only while they are fresh.
The Devil is not afraid to sit on an altar.
Patience is moral elasticity.
Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.
Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.
