The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

The secret of making progress is to get started.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do.

Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.