I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.

There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency; and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.

Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.

Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.