When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.

I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.