There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'

He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.