Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

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