If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

When your watch gets out of order you have choice of two things to do: throw it in the fire or take it to the watch-tinker. The former is the quickest.

Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

We are all ignorant; just about different things.

Imagination labors best in distant fields.

Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.