Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.

Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.