"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also."

"It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense."

"An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency."

"Life: we laugh and laugh, then cry and cry, then feebler laugh, then die."

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."