To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this is the first attempt I have ever made & yet I perceive I shall soon & easily acquire a fine facility in its use. ... The machine has several virtues. I believe it will print faster than I can write. One may lean back in his chair & work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around. Of course it saves paper.

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

If there are no cigars in heaven, I shall not go.

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'.