When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.
Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head.
I lived to write, and wrote to live.
Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.
Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor and on they go as their fathers went before them till weary and sick at heart they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.
Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.
Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, As summer clouds flash forth electric fire.
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
There are two kinds of writers: hustlers and sanctimonious hustlers.
The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it.