There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Geological time is not money.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.