One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

In public we say the race is to the strongest; in private we know that a lopsided man runs the fastest along the little side-hills of success

I've got more freckles than just about anybody. My children didn't get them, thankfully. They have tiny little freckles.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient self-inspection.

I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at