Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.

It were not best that we should all think alike.

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him.