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.

In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.