He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

I don't want my girl to be so skinny she can knife me with her knee.

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

It is believed by everyone that when he was in heaven he was stern, hard, resentful, jealous and cruel, but that when he came down to earth, he became the opposite... sweet, gentle merciful, forgiving. He was a thousand billion times crueler than ever he was in the Old Testament... Meek and gentle? By and by we will examine that popular sarcasm by the light of the hell which he invented.