Great Throughts Treasury

"The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism."

"The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth."

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."

"There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes."

"Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired."

"Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it--to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help."