I don't want my girl to be so skinny she can knife me with her knee.

Talent without work is useless, thank God

The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.