Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

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

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.