We are all ignorant; just about different things.

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.