Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog, he began to bite them.

I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.