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

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

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.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.