I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose = words in their best order - poetry = the best words in the best order.

Writing is good thinking is better. Cleverness is good patience is better.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

My host at Richmond yesterday morning could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son a clever little boy to show me the road leading to Windsor.

No woman marries for money they are all clever enough before marrying a millionaire to fall in love with him first.

To be clever enough to get all that money one must be stupid enough to want it.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.