Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.

What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.