If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.

The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.