Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

If I had more time, I would have written less.

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

You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.