You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.

Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.