We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.