The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

... the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

Age, like distance lends a double charm.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.