Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that stands first and foremost in the heart of every individual of his race - and of ours - sexual intercourse!It is as if a lost and perishing person in a roasting desert should be told by a rescuer he might choose and have all longed-for things but one, and he should elect to leave out water!

Dance like nobody's looking.

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.