Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
Man can climb to the highest summits; but he cannot dwell there long.
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
It’s easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
