A wanton waste of projectiles.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.

A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.

Names are not always what they seem.

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

One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.