I could be an idiot, or I can serve in Congress, but I repeat myself.

Human beings are the only creatures who blush - or who need to.

You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

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

But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.