Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.