"Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway."

"I may be furious and sad about what happened with us, but that doesn't make me believe that what we had wasn't real. …"

"It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so i…"

"He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fie…"

"Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fi…"

"All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either th…"

"In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of —— two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the…"

"One scarcely knows to whom to complain."

"I used to maintain that if it couldn't be put into words it didn't exist; if anything I believe rather the opposite now."

"I think style chooses you... if I could choose, I would write like Jane Austen and I would draw like Rembrandt."