A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.