Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get a set which can really be depended on 'till a dentist makes him one.

the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.