The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all.

Happiness is like a butterfly - the more you chase, the more subtle, but if you stop moving and quietly wait for it to land on you.

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.