You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

"Do you like card tricks?" "No, I hate card tricks," I answered. "Well, I`ll just show you this one." He showed me three.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.