No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to the eye, and more illustrious in history than any other in Europe.

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

The more I know people, the more I love my dog.

I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to unload a book that was taking too much room in their cellars, but you can never tell what a publisher will do. I have been one myself.