I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.