Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

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.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer,' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offences against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.