An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.

I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and hypocrisies and cruelties that make up civilization, and cause me to put in the rest of the day pleading for the damnation of the human race. I cannot seem to get my prayers answered, yet I do not despair.

Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility

To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.