Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know what his sensation would be and his private comments. He would not find the place to his taste, and he would probably say so.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.