That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals.

Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.