A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.