I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.
When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.
A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.
We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.
I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.