But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

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'.

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

Never tell a lie-except for practice.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.