She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently interested; don't know how I got in and can't find the way out, but I'm having a booming time all to myself.Don't know what a Schelgesetzentwurf is, but I keep as excited over it and as worried about it as if it were my own child. I simply live on the Sch.; it is my daily bread. I wouldn't have the question settled for anything in the world.

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.