Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations

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.