To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.

He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.