If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.

Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

Never do wrong when people are looking.

When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.

She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot

On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.