The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.

I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.

The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.

Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Books are the liberated spirits of men.