"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it."
"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
"I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!"
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man."
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."