Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear, She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

Whatever any one does or says, I must be good.

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

Where hast thou wandered. gentle gale, to find The perfumes thou dost bring?

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

A fine woman shows her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.

A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer classes have adopted a certain way of living, producers have an incentive to improve the methods of manufacture so that soon it is possible for the poorer classes to follow suit. Thus luxury furthers progress. Innovation "is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. The luxury today is the necessity of tomorrow." Luxury is the roadmaker of progress: it develops latent needs and makes people discontented. In so far as they think consistently, moralists who condemn luxury must recommend the comparatively desireless existence of the wild life roaming in the woods as the ultimate ideal of civilized life.

Follow your own star!

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

The Kid and the Wolf A kid standing on the roof of a house, out of harm's way, saw a Wolf passing by and immediately began to taunt and revile him. The Wolf, looking up, said, Sirrah! I hear thee: yet it is not thou who mockest me, but the roof on which thou art standing. Time and place often give the advantage to the weak over the strong.

It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it is a proof of the fact that those taking recourse to violent oppression are in their subconsciousness convinced of the untenability of their own doctrines.

Being right is highly overrated. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.