It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

... it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.