Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.

You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.

The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.

Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.