No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.

This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.

That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.