Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.