You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.

It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

Miracle me no miracles.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.