“Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable”

“Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner”

“When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman”

“Age is opportunity no less than youth itself”

“A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife”

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius”