Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
There isn't any way to libel the human race.
If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.
To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadableโlike Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.
The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.