Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.

Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.

If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won''t go.

We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself