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Lost time was...

Lost time was...

Lost time was like a run in a stocking. It always got worse.

Source: In Words of...

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After marriage, a...

After marriage, a...

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and...

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It is hard...

It is hard...

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

Source: In

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Death cancels everything...

Death cancels everything...

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural...

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He writes as...

He writes as...

He writes as fast as they can read, and he does not write himself down.

Source:...

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The incognito of...

The incognito of...

The incognito of an inn is one of its striking privileges.

Source: On Going a...

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The most rational...

The most rational...

The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on...

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It is not...

It is not...

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph -- only less interesting, less...

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Each of us...

Each of us...

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else -- an animal's incomplete compared to a person. . . and a person...

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Passion is not...

Passion is not...

Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as the very definition...

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Independence is essential...

Independence is essential...

Independence is essential for permanent but fatal to immediate success.

Source:...

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The world is...

The world is...

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of...

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[Death] is no...

[Death] is no...

[Death] is no more than passing from one room to another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that...

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If I had...

If I had...

If I had any decency, I'd be dead. Most of my friends are.

Source: At age...

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Those who have...

Those who have...

Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite...

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It costs me...

It costs me...

It costs me never a stab nor squirm
To tread by chance upon a worm.
'Aha, my little dear,' I say,
'Your clan...

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That woman speaks...

That woman speaks...

That woman speaks eighteen languages and can't say No in any of them.

Source: Said...

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An error is...

An error is...

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

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Will the reader...

Will the reader...

Will the reader turn the page?

Source: Note posted in her study, quoted in MD, Jul...

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There couldn't be...

There couldn't be...

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

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