To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.