It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.

It might as well be said, 'Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.'

Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

You're on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls. What is wrong with you?

A cookbook is only as good as its worst recipe.