If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.