Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.

I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.

I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

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