All dogs know what most humans don’t that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.

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

People are lucky and unlucky according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Youth is like spring, an overpraised season.

There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the rule.

Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden – not silence.

To live is like to love – all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

The phrase ‘unconscious humor’ is the one contribution I have made to the current literature of the day.

It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child.