The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

Stimulate the phagocytes.

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

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

A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.