When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it is an overstatement. If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board.

Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.