I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.

Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.

If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every clean candidate in the United States, and defeat every soiled one. Their prodigious power would be quickly realized and recognized, and afterward there would be no unclean candidates upon any ticket, and graft would cease.

You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.

Don't wait the time is never just right.

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.