“Anybody can have ideas—the difficulty is to express themwithout squandering a quire of paper on an idea thatought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.”

“To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.”

“A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”

“Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. ”

“His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.”

“The idea of you lynching anybody! It's amusing. The idea of you thinking you had pluck enough to lynch a man! Because you're brave enough to tar and feather poor friendless cast-out women that come along here, did that make you think you had grit enough to lay your hands on a man? Why, a man's safe in the hands of ten thousand of your kind - as long as it's day-time and you're not behind him.”

“I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.”