Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

Strange is the man who practices his religion.

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.