Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.

Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No- and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business.