There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

To gnaw on is human, towards digest, divine.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people

A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a heavy book because it can be Thrown at a Cat.

I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.