I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!