If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.