-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.

There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else.