I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

In literature imitations do not imitate.

All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.