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

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!

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.

She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication sympathy and service.

The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.

I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.

I refuse to live my life in fear.

It's well known that I play aggressively. When I'm not doing that, I'm not doing my job.

Maybe I should sit. Plenty of people use sitting as a way to pass the time.

For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.

In the school of discipleship, suffering for Christ is never an elective course, but a required core class.

I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.