"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

"A successful book is not made of what is in it, but of what is left out of it."

"We are all a little mad. Those of us who are able to laugh at our own madness are sane enough."

"I was sorry to have to tell him that I had never heard of him. He was a very pleasant man, and I wished him well."

"Man is a creature of circumstances, but circumstances are creatures of men."