Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!

Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.

Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

Friendship is the bread of the heart.

I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.

She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.

We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the freshness and character of an antique coin among smooth shillings.

Geniuses are a dime a dozen. The truly tolerant are rare.

We were so poor we had no hot water. But it didn't matter because we had no bathtub to put it in anyway.

A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

When in doubt, make a western.

You should've seen my big hair in the 80's, that was a real project.

There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want.

My favorite fighter is Phil Baroni, and I’m pretty sure it’s yours too.

And so class will some day supplant race in world affairs. Race war will then be merely a side-show to the gigantic class war which will be waged in the big tent we call the world.

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

The noblest motive is the public good.