Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Moonlight is sculpture.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.