All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.