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.

Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.

I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.

Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.

Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.