Style is doing things not in any way but in the best way.

Ah, yes! I wrote the "Purple Cow" - I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it!

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

Count no matron happy until she hath passed thirty, and hath not waxed fat.

Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.

The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.

A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.