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.

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe.

The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling;the comic and the witty story upon the matter.

A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it.