There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.

All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.