December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.

When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

Sometimes people do get hurt

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.