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

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

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.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

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.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.