Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.
Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.
It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.
The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.
Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.
The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling;the comic and the witty story upon the matter.