That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the editor's way; then he can think better. I do not care much for this one; his ears are not alike; still, editor suggests the sound of Edward, and he will do. I could make him better if I had a model, but I made this one from memory. But is no particular matter; they all look alike, anyway. They are conceited and troublesome, and don't pay enough.

In love, you pay as you leave.

All human rules are more or less idiotic.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.