The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.

A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.