If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.