There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

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.

No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.