Easy writings curse is hard reading.

He is the very pineapple of politeness.

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.

An aspersion upon my parts of speech!

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Never say more than is necessary.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

It's hard not to feel happy when you make someone smile.

Wishing you blessings of good health and wealth. May Joy and Peace be your followers.

You only love me when it's convenient for you.

A poet is a feeling, sentient being, not a word machine.

The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys

Ah, why Should life all labour be?

We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has

An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.

Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.