The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.

Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man.

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.