The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.