Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery or simple bad luck.

Love is potent stuff, isn't it?

The wise man dies no better or more wisely than the fool. In what way, then, is the wise man wise?

Didn't I once observe that there is nothing new under the sun?

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

If I saw a glass of wine repeatedly presented to a man, and he took no notice of it, I should be apt to think that he was blind or uncivil. A juster philosophy…

Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim. And h…